Speocera violacea, Dupérré, Nadine, 2015

Dupérré, Nadine, 2015, Descriptions of twelve new species of ochyroceratids (Araneae, Ochyroceratidae) from mainland Ecuador, Zootaxa 3956 (4), pp. 451-475 : 456

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3956.4.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6102919
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/050DFB71-E469-FFB7-FF94-9796CDFAF895
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Speocera violacea
status	sp. nov.

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Speocera violacea View in CoL new species

Figs 6–8 View FIGURES 6 – 8 , map 1.

Type material. Male holotype from Ecuador, Cotopaxi Province, San Francisco de Las Pampas, Casa César Tapia (00.42415°S 78.95719°W), 1426m, 5 November 2013, sifting litter, C. Tapia ( QCAZ). EXAMINED.

Other material examined. None.

Etymology. The specific epithet is a latin adjective meaning violet-colored.

Diagnosis. Males can be distinguished from all Speocera by their violet colored cephalic pattern ( Fig. 6 View FIGURES 6 – 8 ) and their hook-shaped embolus ( Fig. 8 View FIGURES 6 – 8 ).

Description. Male: Total length: 0.9; carapace length: 0.45; carapace width: 0.3.

PROSOMA: Carapace broadly oval; narrowing gradually anteriorly; shiny, light yellow with purplish pattern ( Fig. 6 View FIGURES 6 – 8 ); pars cephalica flat; fovea not visible. Sternum light yellow, strongly suffused with purplish color; as long as wide. Endites light yellow suffused with purplish tinge; labium light yellow suffused with purplish tinge; notch. Clypeus nearly vertical; very short, shorter than diameter of PME. Chelicerae light yellow; promargin with a series of six to seven teeth reaching the lamina; retromargin without denticles. EYES: Six contiguous eyes surrounded by black pigmentation; PME elongated oval; ALE rounded, smallest; PLE rounded, largest ( Fig. 6 View FIGURES 6 – 8 ). OPISTHOSOMA: Elongated oval; purplish color with median white stripe ( Fig. 6 View FIGURES 6 – 8 ); tracheal spiracle half way between epigastric furrow and spinnerets. LEGS: Light yellow; leg II-III missing; legs total length: I: 1.2; IV: 1.4. GENITALIA: Palpal femur long; palpal tibia with three dorsal and one retrolateral trichobothria ( Fig. 7 View FIGURES 6 – 8 ). Cymbium conical, without prolateral extension ( Fig. 8 View FIGURES 6 – 8 ). Bulb almost spherical ( Figs 7, 8 View FIGURES 6 – 8 ). Embolus elongated, hook-shaped with two associated sclerites: a small, curved and pointed one and a large, semi-transparent rounded one; sperm duct very large initially reducing to about five times its size ( Figs 7, 8 View FIGURES 6 – 8 ).